Nov 29, 2017
Reserve you spot today for the Totally Cider Tour to
the UK! We will be visiting Tom Oliver an award winning cidermaker
and this week's guest on Cider Chat. This cider tour begins in
Bristol, UK on April 25, 2018, then after that evening's dinner at
The Stable for the "Ultimate Cider" dinner we head out to tour
around Somerset and then Herefordshire through May 2nd. Sign up for
a trip of a lifetime and come along with Ria, the host of Cider
Chat and fellow cider travels.
This week's chat was recorded during Tom's presentation at
CiderDays 2017.
Making Perry tips from Tom
- No surprise that Tom says you are reliant upon the
fruit
- Don’t work with culinary pears or apples
- All about minimum intervention
- Ferments with wild yeast - does not pitch
yeast.
- Doesn’t use sulfite prior to fermentation
- No yeast nutrient
- Use a little bit of SO2 - about 80 ppm
Tom’s favorite Pear varieties for making
Perry, hopefully from old trees
More pears mentions in this
chat:
- Coppy
- Rock
- Gin
- Oldfield
- Christmas Pear
- Cypress Pear
- Ferret Custard
- Cows slip
- Dead Boy
Go to this UK link
to find out more about Perry Pears
The Challenge of Perry Pears:
- They all ripen at different times
- They don’t come off the tree
- They engage in bletting
- If the pear is brown in side is it bad or rotten -
no it is not - it is fermenting.
Blet - means overripe pear...it is fermenting
Rot - is decomposing.
- And Tom does use pears that are bletting from the
inside out - "It is how far you will let it go. (blet).
- Tom washes the pears beforehand and referenced Mike
Beck and how he uses saline solution to wash the pears in because
pears sink, unlike apples that float.
- Maceration - leaving the pears to break down the
sugars before you press them
- Tom does at least 24 hours to 48 hours for a pressing.
Contact for Oliver's Cider and Perry
Ask for the following 9
#ciderGoingUP Campaign sponsors - By supporting these cider makers,
you in turn help Cider Chat
- Kurant Cider - Pennsylvania :
listen to Joe
Getz on episode 14
- Big Apple Hard
Cider - NYC : listen to Danielle von Scheiner on
episode 35
- Oliver’s
Cider and Perry - Herefordshire/UK ;
listen to Tom
Oliver on episode 29
- Santa Cruz
Cider Company - California : listen to
Nicole Todd on
episode 60
- The Cider Project aka EthicCider- California
- Albermale
CiderWorks : listen to Chuck Shelton on episode
56
- Cider
Summit : listen to Alan Shapiro founder of this cider fest on
episode 75.
- Ramborn Cider
Co. Luxembourg.
- Big Fish
Cider Co. Virginia
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